The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PERHAPS it may be information to share
holders in silver mines that miners get about 81
q day.
LILLY LAsaTRY's Chinese page having re-
signed to attend school, the Lilly now has little
Iniun whom she is training for ornamental duty.
A RESTAURANT has been opened in London
for exclusive patronage of people who are
troubled with corpulence the food being en-
tirey snti-fat.
Mr.. WAsHBURN, of Minneapolis. one OF the
greatest millers in the United States, is slender
man with mutton-chop whiskers. who looks
more like professional man than flour king
GLADSTONE is firm believer in the good OF
athletics and his son. Herbert Gladstone, is the
president of a National Physical Rrecreation
Society that has recently been organized in Llv-
erpoo.
NJ. ". WRIGHT's old white hen in Lincoln
town, Ca, shed her feathers recently, and the
new coat which grew out in their place is Jet
black. The curious transformation is the talk .
of the town.
IT is to be presumed that the youngest wife on
record in America is Mrs. Lulu Birch, who has
just deserted her husband at the mature age OF
twelve Somebody should take her home ana
give Lulu a good whipping
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE recently said that
after seeing many of the finest cities both IN the
old world and the new, she has concluded that
Hartford, Conn, is the most beautiful city as
place of residence on earth.
COLONEL LAMONT gained considerable flesh
while travelling with the President through the
West. If Lamont keeps on growing fat he will
soon lose the slender and elegant figure which
has been much admredln the past.
MRS BLOOMFIELD MOORE is going to India
with party at the head of which is the nabob,
Sir Salar Jung. One American newspaper men
tions the feet that she is going with SIT Saran
Jurgo," while another announces that She Will
accompany ''Sir Salad Bung."
WHILE abroad during the past summer the Rev.
DR.. Phillips Brooks was afflicted with a malig-
nant felon which threatened to make amputa-
ton of the hand necessary. His general health
ives much affected, and he lost much flesh and
strength, which he is now gradually recovering.
MAJOR BLACK. of Sumter, Ga. owned
guinea hen that wanted to set. Her nest was
broken up several times. and at length, with
everv appearance of detection she walked to
the we'll and with raspinR cry plunged head
first into the water. When she Was taken out
she was dead
New YORK GRAPHIC: Tho Rev Hugh 0. Pent-
ecost. late Socialist candidate for Mayor of New
ark, n. j., and general agitator and disturber,
publicly boasts that when want q drink
take it, from the general tone of his discus
SION people might perhaps infer that he
wants one pretty often.
CANON LIpDoN, when asked his opinion Of the
innovation of surpiiced female choir intro
duced to English notice at recent harvest
festival replied: 'It is difficult to say whether
SO on in church is more irrevsrent than 1t is
certainly grotesQue." GrotesQue is the word for
this most absurd novelty in feminine falkland.
MARK TWAIN says that at fifty cents a week
earned in a printing Office at his home. Hanni-
bal, Mo-, he saved enough in three years with
which make trip to New York and Philadel-
phia. returning nome with a ten dollar bill sewed
into his coat sleeve untouched during the trip.
He earned enough in odd WAYS after reaching
New York to support himself and pay his way
back to Hannibal.
| THE MARQUIS de Mores, according to the Bis
marck Tribune, is far from being bankrupt,
either in purse or in family ties. He has a
fixed income from sources inherited that are I'M
Unmarried. and stable the French govern
ment. His wife has an annual income from the
best American securities in her own maine of
$50. 600. She q fur cloak which cost
s12 COO Between the Marquis and his wife
there is the greatest affection.
AN Ohio preacher tried to quote the verse in
Matthew about mot one jot or TITLE" and said:
..Not one tot or little" Then ne saw that he
had erred and tried again: mot one jilt or tot
tie" said he. and again stopped. But he would
not give up and began: mot one tit or jottle"
and then with red face he gave it up and went
on with his sermon, and there were not half
dozen of his hearers who could really tell just
what the two words were.
REAR ADMIRAL woRDEN hero Of the Monitor
and Merrimac fight. is living in Washington.
He is seventy years of age, but looks younger
He has full blonde beard and bis hair is not as
white as his age would warrant The wound he
received at the Monitor and Merrimac battle
not only impaired his sight. but has left him
always subject TO severe headaches He was re-
tired from the navy In 1856 on full pay ana Is
thus in receipt of Sc, GOO year.
EUROPE outside of Russia, crowds PA. 600. 900
of people upon a surface much smaller than that
held by our 60 900 ,000 says writer in Frank
Leslie's In all Europe, exclusive of Russia. the
average of population to the square mile is 100,
| ana in the United States it is 10. For every
| loaf of bread that a gets in Europe there 10
ten times as much struggling for loaf in this
| country. Bread is dear therefore. and human-
| ty is cheap in Europe. humanity ls more highly
| rated here. ana bread is cheaper
A GENTLEMAN from this side. it was not said
positively that he was an American. went some
years ago to see Thomas Carlyle. determined, if
need be. to speak back to him, the gentleman
| in question was very we'll able to do. And
noticing the sage's tendency to look at the worst
/ side of things, firing in short of his pessimism
/ he tried to change the subject into channel
that would not give rise TO controversy or dole
full thought What magnificent river ..y the
/ Thames 49," he consequently remarked. "Yes.
was the reply Of Carlyle, ''but did you see the
/ dead dogs!"
Pope LEO XIII derives his revenue from three
| sources. One is the interest of the vast sum
| left by Plus the TX in the pontifcal treasury.
| invested chiefly in English consols. This inter
| est amounts to about $625. 900 a year Another
| source is the Peters pence contribution, which,
| in spite of very great reductions in late years.
| averages about $4l5000 annually The third
source is the Apostolic Chancery, the receipts OF
| which includes sums received for titles and dec
orations privileges Of the altar. private chapes.
| ETC.. and aggregate about $500. 900 year The
entire annual income of Leo XIII, therefore, is
about 81. $50, 600.
! Poor BAH actually exists. AT Laberan. a
British possession in North Borneo, the only
English officials are Governor Legs and Lieu
tenant Hamilton. The latter gentleman com
hines in himself the offices of master attendant,
postmaster colonial secretary, treasury, magis.
trate inspector of police inspector of the prison,
| chief commissioner of woods and colonial en-
| eiueer In all these capacities he corresponds
| from himself to himself ana carefully copies and
registers his letters. In writing official letters
from himself to himself he adopts a very digni